Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 272491

Email

katya.krylova@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen
King’s College
Taylor Building A
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
 

Web Links

• www.katyakrylova.org

Biography

Katya Krylova studied German and Italian at Churchill College, Cambridge, where she also completed an MPhil in European Literature and Culture and a PhD in German Literature (funded by the AHRC) in 2011. During her undergraduate studies she spent a year at the Humboldt University in Berlin. As part of her PhD work, she undertook the first of many subsequent research visits to Vienna. The completion of her PhD thesis saw her return to Vienna to work at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography (2010-2012). She has also held research and teaching positions in the Department of German Studies at the University of Nottingham (2012-2015, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship), in the Department of German at King’s College London (2016), and in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham (2017). She is the author of two monographs. Her first monograph, Walking Through History: Topography and Identity in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013), was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. Her second monograph, The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017), was published in June 2017. The book has been widely reviewed and was included in CHOICE's 2018 Outstanding Academic Titles. She is also the sole editor of the multi-authored volume New Perspectives on Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018).

Research Interests

My research is highly interdisciplinary and lies in the areas of modern and contemporary Austrian literature, film, visual culture, and memory studies. The legacy that Austria's past continues to exert on its present constitutes my principal research interest. I am the author/editor of three academic books. My first book, Walking Through History: Topography and Identity in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013), was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. I was also the recipient of the 2010 Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture prize for my doctoral work, awarded by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London. My second book, entitled The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017), was published in June 2017. The monograph undertakes close readings of key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials, which treat the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust, examining what these reveal about the evolving memory culture in contemporary Austria. The book has been widely reviewed and was included in CHOICE's 2018 Outstanding Academic Titles. I am also the sole editor of the multi-authored volume, New Perspectives on Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018), arising from an international conference on Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture (CALFAC 2015), which I organised at the University of Nottingham in April 2015. 

In addition to the above-mentioned books, I have published 18 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and given over 40 conference/seminar papers at international and national conferences and seminars. Since 2009, I have regularly conducted archival research in Austria. I have worked with Ingeborg Bachmann's literary estate in the Austrian National Library (during my PhD work), and carried out biographical research on the Austrian modernist writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal at the University of Vienna archives (during my work at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna, 2010-2012). During the course of my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2012-2015), I undertook two further research visits to Vienna, Austria, in order to carry out research at the Austrian National Library and the Documentation Centre for Modern Austrian Literature, and to interview writers and filmmakers.

I welcome enquiries from potential postgraduate students on topics in my areas of expertise.

Research Grants

Aberdeen Humanities Fund Development Trust Research Award (2019-2020) 

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2012-2015)

AHRC Doctoral Studentship (2007-2010)

Teaching Responsibilities

In 2018/19 I am teaching the following undergraduate courses in German Studies and in Film & Visual Culture.

• GM1556 Modern German Culture 2 (convenor)
• GM3050 German Language Study (convenor in HS1)
• GM3578/GM4578 German Specialised Study: Confronting the Nazi Past in German and Austrian Film (convenor)
• FS1508 Introduction to Film and the Cinematic Experience (lectures)
• FS2007 Visualising Modernity (lectures)
• FS2507 Visualising Revolution (convenor)
• FS30EA/40ED Confronting the Nazi Past in German and Austrian Film (convenor)
• FS35FD/45FD Cinematic Cities (lectures and seminars)

I also supervise undergraduate dissertations in Film & Visual Culture, and teach on the MLitt in Film, Visual Culture and Arts Management and on the MSc in Translation Studies. 

I welcome enquiries from potential postgraduate students on topics in my areas of expertise.

External Responsibilities

Secretary, Women in German Studies

Advisory Board Member, Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture

Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Member of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland

Member of the Austrian Studies Association

Member of the Coalition of Women in German

Book reviewer for Austrian Studies, Journal of Austrian Studies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Modern Language Review, and peer reviewer for The German Quarterly, Journal of Austrian Studies and Modern Languages Open.

Admin Responsibilities

Co-Director of the GWW Centre for Visual Culture 

Library Representative for Film & Visual Culture

School Visits Coordinator for Film & Visual Culture

Personal Tutor in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

Member of Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities Internal (UoA) Selection Panel

Publications